On Thursday 23 April 2009 13:41:35 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I am filing bugs for features missing from KDE 4 that were present in
> KDE 3. Please send to me the features that are missing for _you_ so
> that we can get them in future versions of KDE 4. Thanks!

I wouldn't even know where to start, but here we go:

* System Monitor Configuration Applet:

Other than choosing the network interfaces and a keyboard shortcut (what for?) there is nothing to configure. Only plotting method is graph bar and the only color available is grey. I used to have monitors for CPU temperature, User and system load, incoming outgoing traffic and CPU frequency. These monitors had distinctive colors, some of them combined (net traffic) and I could immediately see what was going on. Not so anymore. Three applets beside eachother look like one piece of of gray modern art. Oh, and resizing them is not an option.

What also totally sucks is the relativity of all these applets. In 3.5.* one could give ranges for the individual monitors, i.e. 1-100 for CPU load. Not so anymore. All you get are relative estimates, but certainly nothing close to serious system monitoring. Basically useless and a huge regression.

* Spacing between icons

Always the same, no difference between starting an application, viewing the desktop, and as soon as you got a couple of windows open the taskbar icons have just the same size, making the whole panel look like an icon regatta.

* Moving items on the panel

Takes more mouse clicks, needs the additional panel options menu bar and simply dragging an application item from the menu doesn't work. Sucky.

* Visual feedback

Hovering over an application button and then clicking it makes no visual difference. Basically you need to wait for the applicatin to start to know whether you clicked the icon correctly or not. 3.5.* had a depth change on the icons, which I found helpful.

* Configuration cluttered all over the place

Basically all configuration options are scattered among various places, some of the in the control center, some of them not (taskbar and panel). Counterintuitive and a serious regression from the previous KDE versions.

Also, I want that tree view back, seriously.

* Applets/widgets

Whatever you call them. The plug in device thingy is useless. I want to mount/unmount a device, not use one specific application for that. Did I mention I find Dolphin a waste of time and screen estate? And I'd like my weather applet that I can I can actually read, not some gray on gray thingy. And I'd like to see which location the applet is using.

There's a lot more, but that's it for the moment.

Peter Lemken
DF5JT